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The American Cancer Society is starting a new chapter in east Seminole County for the Winter Springs-Tuscawilla area, Geneva, Chuluota, and the Oviedo area, including the Alafaya Woods and Stillwater neighborhoods.Chapter representatives will provide information and programs about cancer prevention, and additional services will be available to support and help cancer victims cope with the problems of treatment.An Aug. 5 organizational meeting was held under the direction of the Orlando Metro Chapter at the Oviedo Woman's Club.

The Orlando Predators are leaving downtown Orlando and will play their upcoming season in the CFE Arena on the University of Central Florida campus. The team's relocation from the city-owned Amway Center to the CFE Arena follows quarrels with Orlando officials over advertising revenue and management of the facility. In September, the city declared the team in default on its lease at the Amway Center. "We are thrilled to start a new chapter of the Predators organization at CFE Arena," managing partner David Pearsall said in a news release.

Organizers are trying to form a new chapter of the Disabled American Veterans organization.Persons interested in becoming charter members of Chapter 148 should contact Howard Winters at 892-1321. No date has been set for an organizational meeting, he said.The 66-year-old veterans group has more than 71,000 members in Florida, including DAV chapters in Kissimmee and Orlando, a spokesman said.

WASHINGTON — A U.S. spacecraft carrying about 1,300 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station reached orbit Wednesday morning after a trouble-free launch — marking the start of a new chapter in NASA's effort to outsource routine missions to the private sector. The two-stage Antares rocket built by Orbital Sciences of Virginia blasted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 10:58 a.m. carrying a cargo capsule expected to rendezvous with the station Sunday.

Zsa Zsa Gabor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday, citing cash-flow problems and liabilities of several million dollars, her attorney said. Bennett Spiegel said a $2.1 million ruling against Gabor in a libel suit filed by actress Elke Sommer is part of the overall financial picture but did not specifically lead to the filing.

The anti-immigration forces have gained an especially nefarious ally: White supremacists. A Kentucky family originally from El Salvador found a wooden cross burning on its front lawn just weeks after moving into the neighborhood. A Hispanic teenager was brutally beaten and sodomized in Houston as an attacker screamed, "White power!" Sadly, the floodgates of hatred are widening as the federal government fails to reach a bipartisan consensus on comprehensive immigration reform. A new report released by the Anti-Defamation League points to an increased presence among groups linked to the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads and neo-Nazis, energized by the anti-immigrant backlash.

THE BREVARD COUPON Clippers have formed a new chapter that will meet in the evening in the Melbourne-Palm Bay area. Residents interested in trading coupons and refund forms or in learning more about the group are invited. For information on any of the chapters in the county, call Lucy Kline at 636-3484 or Sherry Grachis at 632-9194.

- NEW GROUP. Brevard County hoteliers plan to form an official chapter of the Hotel Sales and Marketing Association International by the beginning of next year.The thrust of the chapter, which already has about two dozen members, will be to educate owners, managers and other hospitality professionals, according to Jean Holman, director of sales at the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel in Cocoa Beach. Holman is slated to serve as president of the new chapter.The group has held three meetings.

A NEW CHAPTER of the non-profit, research-oriented National Foundation of Ileitis and Colitis has been formed in Central Florida. Ileitis and colitis are inflammatory diseases of the intestines. Further information can be obtained by calling 299-9010. The chapter's first meeting is set for 7 p.m. May 12 at the Las Palmas Inn, 6233 International Drive.

CHARLEVOIX, Mich. -- JonBenet Ramsey's father said Monday that he is considering running for the Michigan House and hopes voters will focus on his ideas and experience rather than the unsolved slaying of his daughter. John Ramsey and his wife, Patsy, said they are ready for a new chapter in their lives after moving last fall from Atlanta to Charlevoix, where they have long had a summer home.

LADY LAKE - St. Alban's Anglican Church, which adheres to apostolic tradition and uses the 1928 Book of Common Prayer in its worship services, is about to break ground on a new sanctuary. Construction is set to begin Friday on the small tract at 699 W. Lady Lake Blvd. near County Road 466 and Rolling Acres Road. The property is behind American Legion Post 347. The 2,592-square-foot building will seat 72 worshipers and also will include a small meeting room and a café kitchen. Senior pastor the Rt. Rev. John H. Upham Jr. will celebrate the groundbreaking service from a traditional liturgy and the Most Rev. James E. Provence, archbishop of the Anglican Provence of Christ the King in San Francisco, will be the guest speaker.

GREENSBORO, N.C. - In Tallahassee, some viewed it as an unforgiveable sin. At the end of Florida State's busy January, one of the school's own - one of its beloved, degree-holding sons - turned his back on the university in favor of taking up residence in so-called enemy territory. With his career and family at the forefront of his mind, James Coley left FSU for the University of Miami. In name only, Coley was the Seminoles' offensive coordinator three of the last five seasons.

After a months-long search, the Winter Park Library is getting a new director. The library's board of trustee's has hired Shawn Shaffer to replace Bob Melanson, who is retiring after 25 years at the helm. Shaffer, currently library director in Elmwood Park, Ill., will take over May 14, the library announced Wednesday. According to a release from the library announcing her hiring, Schaffer will be just the 16 t h director in its 128-year history. "We spent several months evaluating candidates from all over the country, and Shawn is the best possible choice to lead Winter Park's library as it enters its new chapter," Daniel Butts, president of the Library Board of Trustees, said in the release.

Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chairman Tom Rothman, who has led the News Corp. -owned studio together with partner Jim Gianopulos since 2000, is leaving his post on Jan. 1. The unexpected move ends long and largely successful run atop the studio for Rothman, who first came to Fox in 1994 when he founded the specialty label Fox Searchlight Pictures. He previously worked as president of the independent studio Samuel Goldwyn Pictures. With Rothman's exit, Gianopulos will become the sole chairman of Fox, the studio behind "Avatar," "Ice Age," and "Prometheus.

Roads are flooded, the water supply's ruined with saltwater, million-dollar homes are sopped. And it's not a hurricane. It's permanent. It's climate change. South Florida counties are working furiously to avoid that worst-case scenario, planning for climate change and sea level rise in earnest, as they face their fears that parts of this region will be under water in a matter of decades. Southeast Florida's one of the world's regions most vulnerable to climate change crisis, officials say, and has the most at risk, with its enormous population and dense development.

The original 4 Rivers Smokehouse in Winter Park will serve up its last burnt-end sandwiches and other signature foods on Saturday. The lights out at the flagship location, 2103 W. Fairbanks Ave., signals a new chapter for owner John Rivers and his team. A new, larger restaurant dubbed "Winter Park II" will open Monday just up the street. Like the Longwood smokehouse, the new eatery will sport an in-house bakery called The Sweet Shop. First-day customers at the new restaurant, 1600 W. Fairbanks Ave., can expect food samples and an opportunity to sign the original smokehouse table, which will be carried over to the new location.

After a months-long search, the Winter Park Library is getting a new director. The library's board of trustee's has hired Shawn Shaffer to replace Bob Melanson, who is retiring after 25 years at the helm. Shaffer, currently library director in Elmwood Park, Ill., will take over May 14, the library announced Wednesday. According to a release from the library announcing her hiring, Schaffer will be just the 16 t h director in its 128-year history. "We spent several months evaluating candidates from all over the country, and Shawn is the best possible choice to lead Winter Park's library as it enters its new chapter," Daniel Butts, president of the Library Board of Trustees, said in the release.

The Orlando Predators are leaving downtown Orlando and will play their upcoming season in the CFE Arena on the University of Central Florida campus. The team's relocation from the city-owned Amway Center to the CFE Arena follows quarrels with Orlando officials over advertising revenue and management of the facility. In September, the city declared the team in default on its lease at the Amway Center. "We are thrilled to start a new chapter of the Predators organization at CFE Arena," managing partner David Pearsall said in a news release.

TALLAHASSEE - Jimbo Fisher called it "weird. " EJ Manuel said it was "crazy. " And to Dustin Hopkins, it was just "long;" really, really long. In a rivalry that has come to be defined by high-wire drama, emotional in-game swings, hard hits, brash trash talk and enough missed field goals to put on a poor placekicking clinic, the Florida State-Miami series took a stranger, more bizarre turn Saturday afternoon. From the very first play of the 56 t h meeting between these long bitter in-state foes, it was clear something was different.

Larry Coker has seen his fair share of history. He saw it in 2001 when he led an undefeated Miami Hurricanes team to a national championship over Nebraska in theRose Bowl. He witnessed it in 2009, when he was named coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a school that had no previous football program. He will witness it again on Sept. 3, when his UTSA team takes the field at the Alamo Dome against Northeastern State. "We are selling the dream and kids have bought into it and they came and joined," Coker said.